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LLMs are a betrayal.
It can be, unfortunately, a hard thing to tell a writer or artist that their use of LLMs is a betrayal of their own talent,…
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I continue to be deeply unimpressed by large language models
Last night I went to a local lecture series on “neat science“ stuff. There were some interesting things on the bill, but ultimately it was…
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Like a Lead Balloon
It’s been clear from just about the start that the Trump Administration and the MAGA movement are going down, and probably going down hard, and…
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Nonviolence fucking matters.
You’re at a protest. Someone shows up and wants to smash some shop windows. Whether they’re an earnest knucklehead or something far more sinister doesn’t…
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‘Ich Bin Ein Berliner’
[EDIT, 4/5/25: The Tesla Takedown protests are indeed using this strategy of regularity to establish the moral case and physical presence of dissent in the…
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Phil Ochs, “The Power & The Glory”
But this land is still troubled by men who have to hate They twist away our freedom and twist away our fate Law is their…
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Some modest proposals for radical reform.
Abolition of the Presidency. Maximum wage. Self-government by mutual consent. Organize mutualist community around bioregions. If money = speech, then the First Amendment is a…